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Fremont, CA & Chandler, AZ
Thomas@exposurebythos.com
Thomas Johnson
A confident and creative photographer who is self-motivated, self-sufficient and comes to you with a strong background in designing and shooting collaborative projects spanning people, product and environmental photography in both studio and location. Eye for creative design and development. Managing projects from inception to completion. Strong sense of visual story telling. Deep desire to produce work that stimulates the visual senses.
PROJECT MANAGER Sprint Managed Services
Jul 2008 – Jul 2012
Professional Photographer
Over 4 years’ experience as technical and product project manager for a Fortune 50 company. Managed multiple large-scale projects within a fast paced network operations center environment. Primary responsibilities included Root Cause Analysis, After Action Reporting, Customer Relationship Management and Product Lifecycle Management.
WHY ME?
Reston, VA
MENTOR Sprint Emerging Solutions Group
Sep 2012 – Nov 2014
Over 3 years’ experience providing hands on mentor guidance for associate engineers within a networking environment. Mentoring involved developing training curriculum, performance reviews, and systems onboarding and off boarding.
Burlingame, CA
PHOTOGRAPHER Sagetopia Advertising Agency, Freelance
Jan 1999 – Current
Work on location shoots capturing environmental portraits and lifestyle images. Produced works for product photography including clothing, and high end equipment. Collaborated with vendors to offset the costs of equipment.
Landsdowne, VA
LEAD INSTRUCTOR Potomac Center For Photography
Oct 2009 – Dec 2011
Developed training materials and shooting layouts. Taught camera basics, framing and composing, and lighting for effect. Studio projects included subject composition and lighting setup, lighting ratios and scene basics
Ashburn VA
Photography Bachelor of Fine Arts 2017
Relevant Coursework: Lighting for Design and Effect, Photo Design and Concepts, Digital Imaging & Printing, Advanced Photoshop Editing, Digital Asset Management, Location Lighting, People Photography, Visualization, Quality of Light.
Cumulative GPA: 3.73 President’s Honor Roll
Academy of Art University
Photography Certificate of Completion 2010
Related Coursework: Composition, Light and Shadow, Digital Photography, Workflow and Image Editing, Natural and Artificial Lighting.
New York Institute of Photography
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Founding Partner of the PotomacCenter For Photography – quality ofstudio instruction increased membership from 300 to 2200 participants
• Published product, food and lifestylephotography for Chef Tisha’s inaugural cookbook
• Published people and location photography for book author CharlesPrandy
• Published location and people photography for Sagetopia representing the Virginia PovertyLaw Center
• Key lighting grip for an on-locationmusic video.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign Mac OS Capture One 9 Adobe Illustrator
SQL Adobe Premier
Broncolor & Prophoto DXO Optics
SKILLS
WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION
ACCOMPLISHMENTS